Hetz Juniper Quotes

#1. To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

John Avery

#2. A pity you were not born a woman in this life, Little King of Lesser Land, for you seek only to please and to be admired by all.

Sharon Kay Penman

#3. I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.

Margaret Wise Brown

#4. I could have gone either north or south but decided to strike off north because it was my favorite direction.

Alan Bradley

#5. Self-education only produces expressions of self.

Robert Henri

#6. What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

H.L. Mencken

#7. Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

John Doerr

#8. You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.

Alphonsus Liguori

#9. I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

Dorothy Kilgallen

#10. Maybe i'm ashamed because it's hard not to feel ashamed, when just being born is something you can be killed for.

Sharon Dogar

#11. If you can fake sincerity, you've got it made.

Neil Gaiman

#12. Wisdom comes through suffering or old age.

Lesley Pearse